Azure Bot Service Preview
Intelligent bot service that scales on demand
- Start quickly with built-in templates and choose a hosting option that meets your needs
- Easily make your bot smarter with additional Azure services
- Reach your customers on multiple channels—from your app or website to Skype or Messenger
- Pay only for what you use
Accelerated development
Speed up development by working in an integrated environment that’s purpose-built for bot development. Get started in seconds with out-of-the-box templates, including basic bot, Language Understanding Intelligent Service bot, form bot and proactive bot. The Microsoft Bot Framework is built into each template to streamline your workflow.
Learn more about Microsoft Bot Framework.
Broader reach
Increase your interactions and reach more customers from your website or app to email, GroupMe, Facebook Messenger, Kik, Skype, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, text/SMS and Twilio.
Boosted bot intelligence
Add intelligence to your bots with a few lines of code. Add Cognitive Services to enable your bots to see, hear, interpret and interact in more human ways. Developers can connect to other Azure services to enrich their bots. For example, use Azure Search to create sophisticated search capabilities for your bots.
Learn more about Cognitive Services.
Operational agility
Provision your bot using options that let you scale up or down on demand. Or use a serverless option to pay only for what you use and reserve the resources you need.
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Bot Framework
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Cognitive Services
Add smart API capabilities to enable contextual interactions